At lesst 23 killed in militant raid and suicide attack

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Extremist scum are now clearly targetting civilians as well, in their terrorist campaign against Pakistan.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/90186.html

At least 23 killed in attacks in north-west Pakistan

At least 23 people died Saturday in a suicide car bombing and fighting between suspected Islamic militants and government forces in north-west Pakistan, officials said. Ten pro-Taliban gunmen and four soldiers were confirmed killed during an insurgent attack on a military base and a security checkpoint in Dosali near Miranshah, the capital of the tribal district of North Waziristan that borders Afghanistan. A two-hour firefight ensued around 3:30 am after government forces came under rocket fire. “We have the bodies of 10 militants, while the attackers were seen fleeing with five more bodies,” army spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said. Four soldiers were injured in the attack. In a separate incident near the Afghan border, a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-packed car into another vehicle in the remote town of Parachinar in the Kurram Agency. Eight civilians and the attacker died and 35 people were injured, local administrator Sahibzada Anees-ur-Rehamn said. Many of the casualties taken to the main district hospital were in a critical condition, according to doctors. The target of the attack was not immediately clear. A number of businesses were damaged, and the electricity supply to the region was disrupted after cables were severed in the blast.

Islamic extremists have launched a string of attacks on security forces in retaliation for the raid by government troops on a radical mosque in the capital Islamabad in July. More than 100 people died in the mosque fighting, which Islamic extremists have vowed to avenge.

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This is jihad for these mfs. I hope he goes straight to hell. :frowning: In related news mullahs refused to support anti suicide motion in NA.

Pakistan suicide motion ignored
Red Mosque under attack by Pakistani forces in July
The attack on the Red Mosque was followed by several suicide attacks
**Opposition MPs in the Pakistani parliament have ignored a proposal to pass a resolution condemning recent suicide attacks in the country.

The proposal was made by Pakistan’s interior minister during the parliamentary session on Friday.**

Pakistan has been the target of several suicide attacks which have claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks.

The attacks follow a siege by security forces on the Red Mosque in Islamabad which ended in a bloody shoot-out.

Government criticised

**Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao asked for the adoption of the resolution after making an address on the current security situation in the country.

But the call went unheeded by members of parliament, including representatives of the right-wing alliance of Islamic religious parties, the MMA.

They chose instead to criticise the government’s military operation against militants in North West Frontier Province and in North and South Waziristan.**

Waziristan
Opposition MPs said more attention should be given to Waziristan

“The government is only exacerbating disputes over the border with Afghanistan,” said Maulana Fazlur Rahman, the leader of the opposition in parliament.

“Pakistan must change its policies in the so called war on terror before peace can be restored”.

Liaquat Baloch, deputy head of the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami party, also weighed in, calling for an end to US intervention in Afghanistan.

“The situation will not change, and resistance will continue till the Americans leave,” he said.

However the parliament did agree to debate several key issues affecting the county called by the minister for parliamentary affairs.

Dr Sher Afghan Niazi said that subjects up for discussion should include “mud-slinging” by US presidential candidates on Pakistan, the country’s foreign policy, the India-US nuclear agreement, Pakistan’s status as a “front line state in the war on terror” and new conditions on US aid to the country.

Dr Niazi said that he expected the debate to clear up numerous “misunderstandings”. It will begin on Monday.

A proposal is also under consideration to have a joint session of both the senate and the national assembly to discuss these issues.

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Allah save Pakistan. The fault lines are getting bigger and bigger.

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They target families too.

http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/04/top4.htm

MINGORA, Aug 3: A suicide blast targeting family of the district nazim of Swat killed two persons and injured six members of the family in the Gora village of Matta tehsil on Friday night.

The head and limbs of the alleged bomber were found at the site of blast, eyewitnesses said.

Two vehicles of the family of Nazim Jamal Nasir were damaged. The injured were the nazim’s father, Shujaat Ali Khan, a former provincial minister and PML(Q) leader, his brother Malik Ahmad, a union nazim and children of Mr Ahmad.

Officials suspected that the bomber had targeted the two cars carrying the nazim’s family. One car was driven by Mr Malik Ahmad and the second by a driver.

One of the deceased was a passerby identified as Abdur Rehman of the Gora village.

The mother of the nazim and wife of Malik Ahmad suffered minor injuries.

Police also defused a roadside bomb in Sambat area.

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I wonder who can justify the actions of these people?, especially when they are targetting innocent cvilians.

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^ the ones who can justify suicide bombing can justify any action.

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Yes for the terrorist mullahs everyone else is kaffir or murtid and deserves to die. There is no logic to their thinking, they have long given up Islamic reasoning and only do whet their mullah leaders tell them to do. Of course Muslims themselves are responsible for cultivating the cult of suicide bombings, because we never condemned the suicide bombings against Israeli civilians or other non Muslims. Now Allah is showing us that if you support evil against your enemy, He will send this evil against us as well.

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This animal first attracted a crowd of on-lookers by first crashing into a parked vehicle and when people gathered to look, blew his car up for maximum fatalities. He killed Pathans of the agency including girls and children. Makes me wonder if these people have any sympathy with the local civilians.

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=9417

PARACHINAR: Nine persons, including a girl, were killed and 44 others injured when a suicide bomber blew him up after ramming his vehicle into a parked car here on Sunday.

The explosion was so powerful that it totally destroyed six shops, caused damage to a number of others and rocked the whole market. It also badly damaged vehicles parked in the nearby Eidgah Market.

The bomber reportedly collided his car with the parked vehicle to attract crowd and then blew him up.

Five people died on the spot while 48 others sustained injuries. The injured were rushed to the Agency Headquarters Hospital where four more persons succumbed to their injuries. The condition of 10 others was stated to be critical.

Those identified among the dead were Arbab Hussain, son of Wahab Ali, Syed Kamal Hussain, son of Sobedar Major (Retd) Ali Mohsin, Riaz Hussain, son of Mohammad Ali, Hijab Hussain, son of Noor Alam Khan, Jamal Hussain, son of Mohammad Jan, Imran Ali, son of Mir Mohammad Khan, and a teenaged girl Tajmeena, daughter of Munir Hussain, resident of Shalozan.

The injured included two six-year-old children, Syed Turab Hussain and Kamal Hussain. All the victims hailed from different parts of Kurram Agency.

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^ their strategy is to kill more civilians so people who lose their loved ones will standup for "revenge" and then someone will brainwash them that it was 'government action' thus trap them into acting against government otherwise just killing civilians will only go against the terrorist groups.